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Chapter thirty-three

Brandon

R oisin unconscious did strange things to me. I carried her into the bathroom and cleaned her, dried her, then placed her in the bed and settled the covers over her. I returned to the bathroom and washed, then, draped in a towel, I walked around her room, and the adjoining sitting room I hadn’t noticed earlier.

Her sketches and paintings were works of art to rival art galleries. Maybe I’d get her work in one or two, or hell even every single one. She deserved it after fighting for me to be hers. I was the luckiest man alive, or should I say Fae?

A knock sounded on the door, and I crossed the room to open it. Rian and Lorcan stood on the other side of the door.

“Shite, the clothes haven’t come yet,” Lorcan said.

“What clothes?”

“Mother requested the seamstresses make your clothes fitting of Fae royalty,” Rian said. “Did you convince Roisin to let you mark her? ”

“I did.” I opened the door enough, so they saw her asleep on the bed, although it looked like a deeper sleep than just sleeping.

“Good. Let’s go.”

“Where?”

“Father wants us to test your powers.”

“What can I do?”

“That’s what we want to find out.” Rian turned. “Ah, here comes the seamstress now.”

A woman rushed forward and offered me an armful of clothes.

“Thanks,” I said, taking them.

“Hurry,” Lorcan said. “Roisin won’t be out long.”

I glanced at Roisin. “How can you be sure?”

“Her breathing isn’t deep already.” Rian pointed at her form.

“We should wait for her.”

“No, she’ll want to go straight to Earth.”

“True,” I said. “Give me a minute to dress.”

I shut the door feeling guilty about leaving Roisin and sneaking off with her brothers, but this was her home, so I had every faith that if she woke before I came back, she’d find me. As she’d told me, the mating mark meant she’d find me anywhere I went now. I dressed quickly, glad I’d be able to find her too.

Lorcan and Rian were lounging against the wall when I opened the door.

“Aren’t you meant to be spending time with your mates?” I asked .

“We have, and we’ll be back with them soon. This won’t take long,” Lorcan said.

They hurried through the marble hallways, taking turn after turn and making me lose all sense of direction. At least I’d marked Roisin, and I’d be able to find my way back to her room by that. Even now, I sensed the pull between us. We walked through a set of large columns and into a wide courtyard.

“This is where we train,” Lorcan said with a wicked grin. He spun around and flung a jolt of power at me.

It hit me square in the chest and knocked me off my feet.

“You’re supposed to use your power to block.”

I held up my glowing hands. They shone a sky-blue. “What is my power?”

Rian and Lorcan whispered to each other as I got to my feet.

Lorcan flung another wave of power at me, but I ducked to the left in time to avoid it.

“Use your power,” Rian said.

I shook my hands, but they only glowed. “I trained with swords and fists, not magical powers.”

“Same thing,” Rian said.

“No, it’s not.” I ducked to avoid another flare of Lorcan’s power. “Swords are tangible. This power I can’t hold.”

“You don’t need to hold it. Control it,” Rian said.

Lorcan sent more flares of power like small glowing orbs of flames my way one after another not giving me a chance to dodge them. One took my feet out from under me, and I landed on my back with a loud harrumph coming from my chest.

“I don’t get it.” I lifted my hands to the sky in frustration. Power shot up, and a flare of sky-blue magic shot into the sky, merging with it and disappearing instantly. Then a swarm of birds flew into the courtyard. They circled above me as though waiting for my direction. I rolled to the side and pointed at Lorcan.

They flew toward him, then at the last second, Lorcan’s power shot out and changed, directing the birds back into the sky.

“Animals,” Lorcan said.

“Makes sense that would be Roisin’s fated mate’s power since she’s always loved the unicorns but could never get close to them,” Rian said.

I scrambled to my feet. “You mean I can control animals?”

“Aye,” Rian said. “We’d wondered if you’d have access to all the elemental powers, but it doesn’t look like it.”

“How do I control them?”

Rian rolled his eyes. “With your powers.”

“But how? All I did was throw my hands into the air with frustration.”

Lorcan laughed. “Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it.”

Roisin walked into the courtyard. “He’ll get the hang of what?”

“His powers over animals,” Lorcan said.

Roisin folded her arms over her chest. “You took my mate for power training without asking me? ”

“Relax, he was fine,” Lorcan said.

Roisin flicked her gaze over me. If I’d been human, some of those hits he’d flung at me would have left bruises, but now I was Fae, I suffered nothing.

I grinned and strode over to her. “He’s right. I was fine. Better than fine. I now understand more about what I’ve become.”

“I would have helped you figure it out.” Roisin pouted.

“We’ll see you both in the morning,” Rian said. “I’m heading back to bed with Sophia.”

“Me too,” Lorcan said, then laughed. “I meant with Pepper.”

Her brothers shoved each other as they left the courtyard.

“So, you’ve trained your powers here?” I ran my gaze over Roisin, getting hard for her all over again.

“Aye.” She kept her annoyed stance.

“You woke quickly. Wasn’t much to see?”

She dropped her arms. “There was plenty to see. Especially a lot of women.”

“Shit. Sorry. I didn’t realize you’d see those memories.”

“I saw all of them, Brandon.” She huffed. “I understand you have a past.”

I walked toward her slowly. “So, you comprehend none of them didn’t matter until I found you.”

Her expression eased.

“If I could go back and change it and wait for you, then I would.”

“I believe you.”

“So, we’re good?”

“Aye.”

“Can I take you back to bed?”

Her cheeks flushed a delicate pink.

“Perhaps.” She twirled a strand of hair around her finger.

“I promise to make it up to you and wipe all those images from your mind with hours upon hours of orgasms.”

“Well,” she said. “You promised me that and you still haven’t delivered.”

I laughed and grabbed her hand, urging her to follow me from the courtyard.

“Do you even comprehend where you’re going?” she asked, still laughing at my eagerness to have her alone and naked again.

“Nope.” I laughed.

She tugged my hand to the left.

“Lead the way, Princess. I’ll always follow you.”